Holbrooke, Mullen meet Narayanan

New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) US special envoy Richard
Holbrooke Wednesday met India's National Security Adviser M K
Narayanan and is understood to have discussed how India could
help Washington's strategy aimed at ending terror threats
emanating from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Holbrooke, the special envoy for Afghanistan and
Pakistan, was accompanied by Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of
Staff Admiral Mike Mullen.

Holbrooke is also meeting Foreign Secretary
Shivshankar Menon.

Holbrooke is believed to have discussed ways in which
New Delhi could cooperate in US efforts to "defeat" terrorism
originating from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The two top US officials arrived here late Tuesday
night after a visit to Pakistan, where Holbrooke underlines
that economic and military aid provided by the US would be
linked to Islamabad's concrete support to war against
Al-Qaida.

The US has sought to link its strategy in Afghanistan
and Pakistan for resumption of Indo-Pak dialogue. Washington
argues that resumption of the dialogue would ease pressure on
Islamabad and allow it to help America in the war in
Afghanistan.

India maintains that the US needs to focus on
targeting terror bases in Pakistan if the scourge is to be
rooted out. It also believes that Islamabad is lacking
capability or will to target terror bases in Pakistan and
hence the international needs to act collectively and
assertively.